Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia - Endorsements and Notations
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Endorsements and Notations

Endorsements

The endorsement of registration identifies registered nurses and midwives with additional qualifications and specific expertise who meet the requirements of the relevant registration standard.

  • Nurse practitioner – includes prescribing scheduled medicines.
  • Midwife - prescribe scheduled medicines.

Note: Midwife practitioner - refer Position statement on midwife practitioners

For more information about endorsement of registration, please refer to the following documents.

Nurse practitioner

Document name  PDF  Accessible
format 
Document
date 
Registration standard: Endorsement as a nurse practitioner PDF (173KB) Word version 
(393KB,DOCX)
1 June 2016
Safety and quality guidelines for nurse practitioners PDF (172KB) Web page 1 June 2016
Guidelines: For nurses applying for endorsement as a nurse practitioner  PDF (129KB) Web page  1 June 2016
Application for endorsement as a nurse practitioner - AENP-40  PDF (1.12MB) N/A  14 June 2016

Related fact sheets

Midwife - prescribe scheduled medicines

Document name  PDF  Accessible
format 
Document
date 
Registration standard: Endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives PDF (173KB) Word version  (395KB,DOCX) 1 January 2017
Fact sheet: Endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives PDF (184KB) Web page 1 January 2017
Guidelines: For midwives applying for endorsement for scheduled medicines PDF (62.1 KB) Web page 1 January 2017
Application for endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives - AESM-40 PDF (1.18MB) N/A 1 January 2017

Safety and quality guidelines for privately practising midwives

Document name PDF Accessible format Document date
Safety and quality guidelines for privately practising midwives PDF (427KB) Web page 1 July 2023
Fact sheet: Safety and quality guidelines for privately practising midwives PDF (51.4KB) Web page 1 July 2023

Notations

A notation records a limitation on the practice of a nurse/midwife. It is used to describe and explain the scope of a nurse/midwife’s practice by noting the limitations on that practice. The notation does not change the nurse/midwife’s scope of practice but may reflect the requirements of a registration standard.

  • Enrolled nurse notation - this applies to enrolled nurses who do not hold an NMBA-approved qualification in medication administration.

Fact sheet: Enrolled nurses and medicine administration

  • Sole qualification notation – this applies to registered nurses with a sole qualification in mental health nursing, paediatric nursing or disability nursing

Fact sheet: Registered nurses with a sole qualification in mental health nursing, paediatric nursing or disability nursing.

Document name  PDF  Accessible
format 
Document
date 
Application for addition of notation - ANMV-40  PDF (856 KB) N/A  14 August 2020

 
 
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